NOTE TO LYDIA FOTIEVA AND LETTER TO MÁTYÁS RAKOSI, K. B. RADEK, I. S. UNSCHLICHT AND B. I. REINSTEIN[1]

Written:Written on August 23, 1921Published:First published in part in 1958 in the book,V. I. Lenin. O sotsialisiicheskoi zakonnosti(1917–1922)(V. I. Lenin. On Socialist Legality).

      Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ToFotieva: Please ring upRakosi(Secretary of the
Communist International) and find out whether there is a
written decision by the Executive Committee of the CommunistInternational. See yourself that this is done; if need be
send copies of the following toRakosi, Radek, Unschlicht,
Reinstein, arid to whomever else it may be necessary.

Ihave receivedAdolpheS. Carm’sEnglish letter
(“Dresden”, Room No. 37) bitterly complaining that he has been
slandered over factional hostility by Hey wood, who has
informed on him as a spy. He says the commission (of the
Comintern) has cleared him, but though he has been
released from prison, he is not being allowed to leave Russia,
his letters have been confiscated, etc., etc.

Hesays that he is known to Boris Reinstein, the Swede
Kilbom, the Finnish Communist Allan Wallenius and
many others.

Hesays he is a delegate from the SocialistLabourParty
of the United States.

[1]OnLenin’s manuscript there is this note by a secretary: “Talked
with Comrade Rakosi: he promised to find out and give a written
reply.” On September 9, 1921, I. S. Unschlicht, Deputy
Chairman of the All-Russia Cheka, informed Lenin that in view of
Adolphe Carm’s release, he was being allowed to leave the territory
of the R.S.F.S.R., and his case had been quashed.